530 Quotes About Cruelty

Sex and writing live on playful cruelties.

Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart.

I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war.

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling

There was feces at least 3 inches deep throughout house. ... This really moves to a cruelty situation.

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

a haunting reminder to all mankind of man's inexplicable cruelty towards his fellow man.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.